by the author of "The Paramedic Heretic" & "America's Dumbest Doctors"

Two More Doctor Drug-Pushers Locked Up. Some Things Just Never Change

In Palm Beach County Florida another physician was sent off to state prison this month after being found guilty of narcotic drug pushing. And his daffy-doc buddy won’t be far behind.

Doctor Stuart Fox, age 65, walked out of Judge Dina Keever’s courtroom with his hands in shackles. He is merely one of more than 300 physicians nationwide convicted last year for drug-pushing – specifically in his case, Conspiracy to traffic in oxycodone.

The end of this sordid case – which began when Fox was arrested in 2013 –came 10 days after Judge Keever held off sentencing his former partner in crime, Doctor John Christensen. Christensen, also 65, had already confessed in court to being responsible for2 patient overdose deaths, as well as Conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

A former Palm Beach County doctor, John Christensen was sentenced to just 1 year in federal prison on HealthcareFfraud. As part of a plea arrangement with state prosecutors, the federal sentence will serve as Christensen’s punishment for the overdose deaths of 2 patients, along with a Conspiracy to traffic oxycodone charge.

Christensen, who had owned and operated 3 clinics in Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach and Port St. Lucie, also begins his prison term this month. Authorities said Fox worked at Christensen’s West Palm Beach office. Both MDs were arrested on July 11, 2013, on similar drug scheme charges.

Christensen was originally charged with 2 counts of First Degree Murder, but the charges were reduced to Manslaughter in exchange for a guilty plea. He took responsibility for the deaths of Florence Garrett on Sept. 27, 2007, and Pawel Staniszewski on Aug. 7, 2008 – both residents of West Palm Beach. The former doctor was accused of prescribing oxycodone and an anti-anxiety drug to Garrett, and prescribing methadone to Staniszewski, before they died.

The following live human study is creating needless stress, therefore an increases in drug use and abuse. Ten’s of thousands laypersons taught all the signs of opioid OD, then trained to give chest compressions only!!

Above comments are playing havoc with the Brothers and Sisters in the EMS field etc. Common quotes “Gary we are showing up to calls people damaged from chest compression’s they were never to receive on a regular basis” Say nothing living in fear, therefore not living.

Quote Patrick McDonald ‘Paramedic Heretic’ page xvii “So what is the purpose of the Paramedic Heretic? Simple. It is time for somebody in my field of expertise to shout “gardyloo!” from the belfry. It’s time that you – health care’s ultimate consumer – gain the perspective of just how distorted our corner of medicine has become.”

(Healthcare protocols need to) Stop feeding our women and children to a monster as it eats our very souls. Monster is just a bully full of hot air who lives in fear of wisdom.

It is a mental illness called Anosognosia! It is a severe form of denial. Anosognosia is quite different than simple or temporary denial. It is not simply denial of a problem, but the genuine inability to recognize that the problem exists. Usually this is caused by brain damage!

All Canadians should respond and provide chest compressions (with or without mouth-to-mouth ventilation) whether they are trained or not, when an adult, child or infant suddenly collapses. Trained rescuers are encouraged to provide mouth-to-mouth after the initiation of chest compressions, especially in the case of children, infants, newborns.

I took Toronto Public Health’s naloxone training Sept. 2, 2011. When I asked during the 30 minute one on one training about rescue breathing was told “chest compressions only is the new standard, for opiate O.D.”

TPH has trained over 530 people this in Toronto, and they are teaching this algorithm all over the province. The only answer they give me is “its the new standard” I can’t find consensus anywhere.